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The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for 2007.

The Best Picture winner of 1964, director George Cukor's My Fair Lady, was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The musical had run for many years on the stage (in both NYC and London). Audrey Hepburn, the female lead of the film, was controversially not nominated for Best Actress. The unpopularity of her replacement of Julie Andrews - the stage actress from the original play (and ironically the Best Actress winner of the year) - as well as the revelation that her singing performance was dubbed by Marni Nixon were seen as the main reasons for the snub.

The producer of the ceremony was MGM film producer Joe Pasternak. Bob Hope served as master of ceremonies. The awards show was star-studded with many top celebrities participating, including an appearance by Judy Garland, who sang a medley of Cole Porter songs in tribute to the composer who died in October, 1964.

Winners

Best Picture

My Fair Lady

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Zorba the Greek
• Becket
• Mary Poppins

Best Director

George Cukor for My Fair Lady

• Peter Glenville for Becket
• Robert Stevenson for Mary Poppins
• Stanley Kubrick for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Mihalis Kakogiannis for Zorba the Greek

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady

• Richard Burton in Becket
• Peter O'Toole in Becket
• Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins

• Sophia Loren in Matrimonio all'italiana
• Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon
• Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater
• Debbie Reynolds in The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Peter Ustinov in Topkapi

• John Gielgud in Becket
• Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady
• Edmond O'Brien in Seven Days in May
• Lee Tracy in The Best Man

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek

• Gladys Cooper in My Fair Lady
• Edith Evans in The Chalk Garden
• Agnes Moorehead in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Grayson Hall in The Night of the Iguana

Best Original Screenplay

Father Goose - S. H. Barnett , Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff

• A Hard Day's Night - Alun Owen
• I compagni - Agenore Incrocci , Furio Scarpelli and Mario Monicelli
• L'homme de Rio - Jean-Paul Rappeneau , Ariane Mnouchkine , Daniel Boulanger and Philippe de Broca
• One Potato, Two Potato - Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes

Best Adapted Screenplay

Becket - Edward Anhalt

• Zorba the Greek - Mihalis Kakogiannis
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick , Terry Southern and Peter George
• Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi
• My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner

Best Cinematography, Color

My Fair Lady

• Becket
• Cheyenne Autumn
• Mary Poppins
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Best Cinematography, Black & White

Zorba the Greek

• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Fate Is the Hunter
• The Americanization of Emily
• The Night of the Iguana

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

Zorba the Greek

• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Seven Days in May
• The Americanization of Emily
• The Night of the Iguana

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

My Fair Lady

• Becket
• Mary Poppins
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• What a Way to Go!

Best Costume Design, Black & White

The Night of the Iguana

• A House Is Not a Home
• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Kisses for My President
• The Visit

Best Costume Design, Color

My Fair Lady

• Becket
• Mary Poppins
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• What a Way to Go!

Best Sound

My Fair Lady

• Father Goose
• Becket
• Mary Poppins
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Best Film Editing

Mary Poppins

• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Becket
• Father Goose
• My Fair Lady

Best Effects, Sound Effects

Goldfinger

• The Lively Set

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

Mary Poppins

• 7 Faces of Dr. Lao

Best Music, Score - Substantially Original

Mary Poppins - Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

• Becket - Laurence Rosenthal
• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Frank De Vol
• The Fall of the Roman Empire - Dimitri Tiomkin
• The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini

Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment

My Fair Lady - Andre Previn

• A Hard Day's Night - George Martin
• Mary Poppins - Irwin Kostal
• Robin and the 7 Hoods - Nelson Riddle
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Robert Armbuster , Leo Arnaud , Jack Elliot , Jack Hayes , Calvin Jackson and Leo Shuken

Best Music, Original Song

Chim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins - Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (music and lyrics)

• Dear Heart from Dear Heart - Henry Mancini (music) and Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (lyrics)
• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte from Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Frank De Vol (music) and Mack David (lyrics)
• My Kind of Town from Robin and the 7 Hoods - Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
• Where Love Has Gone from Where Love Has Gone - Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics)

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects

Casals Conducts: 1964

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

The Pink Phink

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Nine from Little Rock

Best Documentary, Features

World Without Sun

Best Foreign Language Film

Ieri, oggi, domani - Italy

• Kvarteret Korpen - Sweden
• Les parapluies de Cherbourg - France
• Sallah Shabati - Israel
• Woman in the Dunes - Japan

Honorary Oscar

William Tuttle received the first Honorary Makeup award for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. (It would be 17 years until the Academy would introduce a regular competitive category for such achievements.)